January, 2013

One night I'm working at my desk with my computer off. Suddenly my computer turns itself on. I've disabled mouse and keyboard inputs from waking it up. The only thing that should wake it from sleep is when I press the power button. Luckily there is a...

Here is an interesting WCF exception you may have encountered before. In my case we were looking into a performance issue for a client. Environment This setup is pretty common. A set of load-balanced web servers is talking to a load-balanced...

During a forward integration, it is helpful to get a report of what changes occurred during that time period. This started out being done by hand but programmers hate doing by hand what should be easy to automate. There were many ways to produce the report...

ETW has many uses. Filtering allows you to get only the events you want and an out-of-process consumer can listen for those filtered events. ETW can also be used for profiling native and managed code. It can sample stacks and mark context switches. That...